Everyone’s heard of Silicon Valley and know that it’s a magnet for technological startup’s. But for investors and entrepreneurs who don’t want to leave home, head all the way to California, or are interested in less software focused startups where else are startup hotspots around the globe?

A new company, Startup Compass, who have built a fantastic new service to help startups succeed by being able to benchmark ‘your’ startup against tens of thousands of others of startup’s, has mapped a map and list of the world’s top 25 start-up ecosystems.

Here is a list, in ranked order by average throughput, of what we’ve found to be the 25 most active startup ecosystems around the world.